T224 coolant leak

[JTKub]

I noticed a pie plate sized coolant stain on the concrete floor under my T224 the other day. Great... It's been super cold and snowy in my area, so I've been using it almost daily for driveway snow removal. Being anywhere from -5degF to 10F out and having snow on and around the machine it's tough to see anything and I avoid working on anything in these temps. All I've been able to do is a cursory look around under the hood. Overflow bottle seems intact and not loosing level. I'm hoping it's a loose clamp, etc. I'd rather avoid the dealer as getting it there and back would be a ~$300 roll-off run for me. I'll post back when I figure this out. The Yanmar 3TNM74F in this unit came with pink-reddish coolant. In the meantime I ordered a bottle of this off the Amazon machine:

 

[tacticalturnip]

I had a lose hose clamp earlier this year on the Kioti; tightened the existing one down and added a second and all has been good since. Hopefully that's all you've got going on.

 

[JTKub]

I had a lose hose clamp earlier this year on the Kioti; tightened the existing one down and added a second and all has been good since. Hopefully that's all you've got going on.

I'm hoping it's just this.

I rather have constant tension clamps vs worm drive for this reason.

 

[JTKub]

I think I found the culprit. Looks like the hose to the water pump inlet is leaking at the clamp area. I got scared at first. I laid cardboard down and got under the machine with my work light. Coolant has run down the water pump, behind the crank pulley and covered the oil pan. Basically the whole front of the engine has coolant on it. It's like 5degF out there right now. I'll wait till the engine is fully warmed up and see if I can tighten that clamp.

 

[gorj]

I noticed a pie plate sized coolant stain on the concrete floor under my T224 the other day. Great... It's been super cold and snowy in my area, so I've been using it almost daily for driveway snow removal. Being anywhere from -5degF to 10F out and having snow on and around the machine it's tough to see anything and I avoid working on anything in these temps. All I've been able to do is a cursory look around under the hood. Overflow bottle seems intact and not loosing level. I'm hoping it's a loose clamp, etc. I'd rather avoid the dealer as getting it there and back would be a ~$300 roll-off run for me. I'll post back when I figure this out. The Yanmar 3TNM74F in this unit came with pink-reddish coolant. In the meantime I ordered a bottle of this off the Amazon machine:

Had the same thing happen on my TYM. Coolant hose on the water pump was not tight. But I lost about two cups of coolant from the system. Mine has the pink coolant too.

I had a lose hose clamp earlier this year on the Kioti; tightened the existing one down and added a second and all has been good since. Hopefully that's all you've got going on.

I had the same kind of leak on my TYM. Was a loose clamp on the water pump. Had to add about two cups of the pink coolant.